deliberations. sonia moghi, brooklyn. hello again, thank you so much for joining me, i'm fredricka whitfield. we begin this hour with encouraging news on the coronavirus pandemic. the rate of cases is slowing. new infections are at the lowest rate the nation has seen since august 10th. the u.s. is averaging more than 122,000 new coronavirus infections a day, that's down more than 16% from last week. despite that positive trend, experts say the coronavirus may be here to stay. >> i think this delta wave may be the last major wave of infection, assuming nothing unexpected happens. this becomes a more persistent endemic risk. so you continue to have coronavirus spread, but not at the same rates we're seeing right now and it settles into a pattern, more of a seasonal pattern and basically becomes a second flu. >> cnn's alison kosik joining me

from new york with more on this. >> reporter: pfizer's covid-19 booster shots are available for millions of americans after cdc director dr. rochelle walensky split with her agency's vaccine advisers by recommending a third dose for people who are considered high risk based on where they work. but even she admits the country can't boost its way out of the pandemic. >> it's hard to acknowledge i'm over 65, but i will be getting my booster shot. >> reporter: president joe biden along with millions of other americans is now eligible for a third dose of the pfizer vaccine. >> like your first and second shot, the booster shot is free and easily accessible. booster shots will be available in 80,000 locations, including over 40,000 pharmacies nationwide. >> reporter: the booster shots are now green lit by the fda and cdc for americans 65 and over. people 18 and up with certain underlying health conditions and

adults at increased risk of covid because of their workplaces or institutional settings. >> in a pandemic we most often take steps with the intention to do the greatest good, even in an uncertain environment. and that is what i'm doing with these recommendations. >> reporter: but getting more initial shots in arms remains a high priority for the administration. >> i want to be clear. we will not boost our way out of this pandemic. >> reporter: a dramatic scene played out in realtime on friday during a taping of "the view." >> i need the two of you to step off for a second. >> okay. >> anna and -- >> we're going to bring you back later. >> okay. >> reporter: two hosts of the show tested positive for covid ahead of an interview with vice president kamala harris but later in the day two sources said that both women subsequently tested negative on follow-up rapid and pcr tests. harris had not interacted with them, a white house official said. according to new data from the cdc on friday 75% of the

eligible population in the u.s. has received at least one dose of the vaccine and 32 states and d.c. have now fully vaccinated more than half of their residents. but in alabama a different story. the state's health officer said yesterday that reports that the state has had the highest death rate in the country recently need to be verified, but they certainly make sense. he said over 100 people died there every single day last week. >> you know, these aren't numbers or stats, these are -- these are our friends and our family and our loved ones, these are alabamians who are dying of covid. we continue to say at least 90% of these deaths are completely preventable with vaccination. >> reporter: meanwhile, here in new york state on monday a vaccine mandate for all health care workers will go into effect. >> i believe it's critically important for our health care workers to be as healthy as they can before they attend to the health of others. >> reporter: that same day new

york city mayor bill de blasio is also requiring all school staff to provide proof of receiving at least one dose of the vaccine. >> we're going to work with anyone who needs to get vaccinated between now and the deadline. if they don't get vaccinated, consciously make the voice not to get vaccinated, they will be suspended without pay. >> reporter: now, two major unions representing teachers, principals and school supervisors in new york city, they're calling on mayor bill de blasio to delay the vaccine mandate deadline which is on monday at midnight, but with 10,000 new york city schoolteachers yet to show proof of one dose of the vaccine there are major concerns from the unions over how tuesday morning will go and whether schools will be safe and properly staffed. fredricka. >> alison kosik, thank you so much. i know a lot of parents are on the edge of their seats. joining me to discuss is this a dr. davis an inn next shus disease expert and health director for the city of st. louis. dr. davis, always good to see

you. let's talk about this new data from the cdc showing that people under 50 are among the least vaccinated, i mean, the numbers hovering between the 40 and 60% ranges. so how can the biden administration and members of the medical community better target these people who are mostly under the age of 49 to get the message to fully vaccinate? >> i think innovation here is key, fredricka. we need to empower our primary care physicians to be able to have these difficult conversations with this younger demographic but also to underscore the fact that while mild illness may be more predominant within this age group, that they are seeing what we refer to as long covid symptoms, these symptoms that persist for weeks, months and in some places still continuously after contracting covid. we do not know what the long-term effects of those will be and that is not something we can take lightly. not just that, to also

underscore the fact that we do not want folks to have asymptomatic transmission to their loved ones who may be at higher risk. this is absolutely a critical message. >> right. and congratulations on your new job as the st. louis health director. so what have you observed while in this post? >> listen, you know, as you know, fredricka, from the last time we spoke missouri has been in the thick of things and we were one of the highest states as far as cases, hospitalizations and deaths. what we are seeing now, thankfully, is the seven-day average is showing a decline in covid positive hospitalizations just this week, but our icus are still full and deaths have remained the same. so for me the charge remains the same, which is to get the message across that the vaccine is the best available tool in our toolbox, but the vaccine alone isn't going to get us there. what i'm also trying to address in st. louis is access, especially in black and brown communities that have been consistently the lowest

vaccinated and where misinformation, disinformation and the lack of trust is high. people do not trust our systems and rightfully so. so that is something i need to address. i have already reached across the aisle to county leadership to ensure that we have regional meetings on a monthly basis to both align our goals and to share resources. something that i think will help us get there. >> and now on the issue of the booster shot, the cdc has diverged from a recommendation from the agency's independent group of vaccine advisers to allow vaccine boosters for people who are at increased risk of covid because of where they work. take a listen to this. >> i want to be very clear that i did not overrule an advisory committee. i listened to all of the proceedings of the fda advisory committee and intently listened to this exceptional group of scientists that publicly and very transparently --

transparently deliberated for hours over some of these very difficult questions and where the science was. this was a scientific close call and i think you could tell by the duration of the meeting and the discussions that this was a scientific close call. in that situation it was my call to make. >> are you on board with this? >> so i -- it's difficult. so let me say this, i will say that i understand where the decision came from. if you are operating in a vacuum, if we're pretending the u.s. is its own island and we're going by just the priorities for this country this decision makes a lot of sense, i'm a health care worker, i know the risks that i carry by doing this job every single day and so i respect the data that underscored this and by which this decision was made. >> but? >> my concern, fredricka, is that we are still in a global

pandemic, we are less than 3% of africans are fully vaccinated compared to over 60% in north america. even here in the u.s. black and brown communities are still woefully left behind in vaccinations and so what i would like to see is the same passion, the same dedication and the same clear messaging as to what we are doing around global and local vaccine equity. >> you heard the president during the u.n. session that a commitment of doses is being made to other countries from the u.s. stockpile. are you saying that is not enough? >> as large as that donation is and as much as i am absolutely grateful for that commitment, it is a one-time commitment and not nearly enough. we need to see more around what is happening with manufacturing hubs that will empower countries around the globe to be able to make their own vaccines and for continued support as well. it's a both and approach, fredricka, not just a one-time

deal. >> dr. davis, congratulations because i understand you are also spending your sixth wedding anniversary with us today. is that true? >> fredricka, thank you. yes, i will head off and give my husband some of my time but i do appreciate that. thank you. >> congratulations. happy anniversary. good to see you. all right. still ahead, toilet paper, paper towels, cleaning supplies all may be hard to find again amid a critical supply shortage. we will explain why. plus, deep divisions in the democratic party are threatening to derail president biden's domestic agenda all while a potential government shutdown looms. people everywhere living with type 2 diabetes are waking up to what's possible with rybelsus®. ♪ you are my sunshine ♪ ♪ my only sunshine... ♪ rybelsus® works differently than any other diabetes pill

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pandemic when you couldn't find toy lel paper, cleaning supplies? guess what, it's all going to happen again. costco says it is going to have to put limits on how much toilet paper, paper towels, cleaning supplies that all of us buy. a breakdown in the supply chain are making it harder to get stores shelves restocked and that's not all. computer chip shortages have slowed down production for everything from cars to appliances, even nike says it can't supply enough shoes to fill demand right now. some experts think that shortages could last well into next year. jennifer smith is a reporter for the "wall street journal" who covers supply chain issues. jennifer, good to see you. all right. help us explain when these companies say supply chain issues, what does that mean? >> right. so the supply chain is the whole process of making and selling commercial goods so that's the raw materials that go into a product, you know, production

factories and then getting it to where it will eventually be sold. there is a lot of transport links in that and distribution, maybe it goes to retail shelves, maybe it goes to a factory, you know, widget to help them make more widgets or maybe it comes to your home in an e-commerce parcel. >> why are there shortages on everything from manpower, why is that all in sync and dwindling supply? >> well, as you recall back to the early days of the pandemic, when covid first hit on a global scale we got these crazy demand shocks, sort of as if you had a hurricane but if you had a hurricane everywhere. everyone was freaking out trying to buy toilet paper and fred and that was happening domestically. fast forward to where we are now. the consumer demand in the u.s. is strong and people are trying to meet that demand, but the pandemic is still here and it is still affecting the ability to

produce the goods and it's also having an impact on the labor needed to move and distribute them, plus there are reverberations, port congestion so that's throwing the whole ocean shipping ecosystem that so much of global trade relies on. that's sort of in upheaval and there are slowdowns there so it's also converging whether it's a factory shut down because of covid that means another -- another -- you know, a retailer can't get clothes or if that's affecting the chip supply that goes into everything from trucks to -- trucks and cars and computers and all the home electronics that people loaded up on in the early days of the pandemic. you have supply shocks and production problems and transport issues. >> you made mention of the ports. this week we saw stunning pictures of more than 70 container ships waiting at the ports of long beach and los angeles, 40% of container goods in the u.s. come through these

ports. so what's it going to take to break the congestion? >> that's an excellent question and that's a subject of hot debate. so right now that port complex which is the busiest u.s. gateway for imports, they are talking about ways to try to unclog the congestion, the port of long beach is moving to do some trials for 24 operations not all the time but for a couple days a week, the port of los angeles which is right next door is hoping to make sure that the hours that this is operating that that time is being used as efficiently as possible, that you're getting truck drivers in to pick up the boxes, haul them away, make room for more so they can speed it up. undergirthing a lot of these problems is labor is a big piece. you need people to unload the goods off the ships, drivers and trucks to take it away, labor at warehouse toss receive the goods

so they can take it in, store it and the truckers can turn around and move empty containers out and eventually get the containers back to asia so more goods can come. >> if you have a dearth of all of those things hence you up the backup and containers sitting there that can't be offloaded. what, if anything, can the biden administration do to help tackle some of this? >> well, my understanding is that they're asking the busiest u.s. ports to do everything they can to sort of speed up the flow of goods. how much of that is in their power or not, you know, remains to be seen. so already, you know, long beach and los angeles are trying to do what they can and we'll see if that works, again, there's a whole -- the rest of the supply chain once you actually get off the docks, though, what happens, do you have enough trucks to move the stuff away? is there enough space in the warehouses near the sports in are people there, are you able

to get stuff on trains and move it into the middle of the country which is the way a good amount of goods get from ports into chicago and then throughout the rest of the country. you know, you need all those pieces in play to make things open up and start running again. >> all right. jennifer smith, "wall street journal," glad you could be with us. thank you so much. >> thank you. coming up, president biden's top legislative priorities are in limbo threatened by a divide within his own party. visible is wireless that gets better with friends. pay as low as $25 a month. or bring a friend and you both get a month for $5. so the more people you roll with, the more you save. visible. unlimited data as low as $25 a month. or bring a friend and you both get a month for $5. usaa is made for the safe pilots.

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domestic agenda. cnn has just learned from sources that the house democratic conference will hold a critical caucus meeting on monday and this comes as house speaker nancy pelosi weighs options on a path forward on biden's massive spending legislation and the bipartisan infrastructure bill. pelosi has promise add vote on the infrastructure deal on monday, but progressives are threatening to vote no on that bill if a big budget isn't also presented. cnn's sunlen serfaty joins us from capitol hill where democrats are meeting right now. so what more do you know about what moderates want, what progressives want and whether everything is in the air as a result? >> reporter: everything is certainly still up in the air, fred, there is no progress, no agreement yet which is why lawmakers are continuing to negotiate and work on breaking this log jam throughout this weekend. now, at issue is still this intense stalemate that we've seen among house democrats. we have moderates who are

demanding pelosi hold firm and hold a vote on that infrastructure bill, that bipartisan infrastructure bill, on monday, but progressives are pushing back against that. they want to tank that infrastructure bill, say they will vote against it, unless their first is an agreement on that broader economic social spending bill and at this point they are very, very far from agreeing towards any of the contours of that bill. speaker pelosi has said next week she intends to hold a vote on both of these bills, but house progressives are saying, look, that does not help anything to move to a vote on monday on infrastructure, in fact, they believe it makes the tension within their party worse. just check out this rhetoric among democrats. >> speaker pelosi, will the vote still happen for sure on monday on the infrastructure bill? >> the bill will come up on monday. >> -- the vote is going to

happen because i don't think the speaker is going to bring a bill to the floor that's going to fail and we still have -- and actually the number is growing, but we have at least 50 people who are not going to vote for that bill. so i think what we need is to take the temperature down a little bit, to have the negotiations continue. the vote is going to drive up tensions not drive down tensions. >> reporter: now, today up here on capitol hill at 2:00 p.m. eastern time there will be a very rare saturday session of the budget committee. they will begin working on marking up that broader economic package. that is largely symbolic in nature, it's basically intended to show that they are moving and progressing on that budget bill to apipease some prague gives. on monday the democratic caucus will get together on capitol hill certainly trying to take the temperature of members and potentially plot that path forward but that path forward right now is still very unclear. >> all right. sunlen serfaty, thank you so

much on capitol hill. joining me right now is congressman tim ryan of ohio. congressman, so good to see you. you are on the -- great. you are on the appropriations committee. do you expect a vote on this infrastructure bill monday? >> you know, i'm not sure. i think that's the conversation that's happening now. i think what we do know is that what we're talking about here is increasing our ability as a country to outcompete china, they're coming after us in so many different ways and the investments we are talking about infrastructure, early childhood education, community college, you know, that's all about outcompeting china. and the other thing is we're trying to put money in people's pockets here, extending the child tax cut for families, which has been huge for millions and millions of families, expensive to raise kids, early childhood education, preschool, those kind of things mean money in the pocket for people. child care, family and medical

leave, the medicare expansion for vision, dental and hearing. that's all money in people's pockets. so we've got to keep perspective as to what we're trying to do here and that's outcompete china, put money in people's pockets and at the end of the day i think we are going to come to an agreement on how big this needs to be and how we're going to pay for it and in a few months the american people are going to feel the benefits of it and china in the long term will feel the negative aspects of these investments. >> so when you put it like that it sounds like that would be appealing to everybody, but, you know, here you have, you know, democrats in the majority and the party is split and could potentially jeopardize the president's agenda and all of those things that you just laid out. so with this fissure between moderates and centrists and progressives republicans don't seem to be your only opponent. you've got opposition within your own party.

>> well, the republicans have no interest in doing what's in the best interest of the country. i think they've proven that january 6th and on and on. they're not interested in governing at all. they never have been in my career. so it's time for us to find some common ground so that we can get to some higher ground and i think that's -- that's the conversation that's happening within the democratic caucus. we control the house and the senate and the white house. where is that common ground, where are these initiatives for the common good? i find these initiatives hugely beneficial to businesses. i mean, to put more money into people's pockets that they can go out and put into the economy, boost these restaurants, boost these other businesses that need help. i mean, that's going to be huge for businesses for them to have consumers with a tax cut and more money in their pockets so it benefits them, too. let's do for the common good, find common ground, to get to

some higher ground and then we can start rebuilding the country but right now the republicans aren't being, you know, honest brokers, they're trying to deep six this thing because they know that the american people are going to benefit from this and they know it's a big step to outcompeting china and so they are not going -- >> are you worried that -- isn't it that you're worried that democrats -- democrats in this fissure and infighting is what will defeat the measure as opposed to being able to place the blame on republicans? i mean, progressives are threatening to vote against this infrastructure bill and so if that's the case what is the danger in delaying that vote that was scheduled for monday before you can get everybody together? >> well, i think, you know, it's the old saying there's two things you never want to watch being made and that's sausage and laws. so this is never a pretty process, it never has been, you can go back and look at, you know, passing social security or medicare or any of the big initiatives that we had in the country over the history of this

country, were never easy. you know, equal rights issues and all the rest. so this is not going to be easy and these are the conversations that the leadership is having. we have some great leaders not only, you know, in the house and the senate, but the budget committee leader, john i can't remember yarman, understands how to get these deals done. we're going to get it done. i feel confident in that. the blow by blows aren't always pretty but we will have a big infrastructure package and we will have big investments into cutting workers in on the deal and putting money in their pockets and this is a huge step, again torques outcompete china. and that's what the democrats are focus on, fredricka. they get the big picture. a lot of us were around in 2010 when we didn't do enough to heal the economy quick enough and everybody knows that and everybody was around for that. so we're not going to make that mistake again. so you have the blow by blows happening now, but we're going

to get this deal done and we're going to shift the conversation in america to how we start playing offense, outcompete china, putting working people first with this tax cut for workers and money that their pocket. >> you remain optimistic. >> i feel very optimistic. >> all right. so let me ask you about covid and about your optimism there. i mean, you are recovering from a breakthrough case after you were vaccinated. so how are you feeling? you sound good. you look good. but how are you feeling and what are your concerns and worries about the growing number of breakthrough cases? >> you know, i feel blessed. i'm tired, but i feel blessed that i'm not, you know, sicker obviously and have to go to the hospital and the icu and, you know, the respiratory issues and all of that. other than being really tired, i'm okay. i feel thankful for that. i am worried about the health care workers.

i mean, having tested several times negative and then eventually positive test and not feeling well over the past week or two, i've been interfacing with the health care system. i just want people to know how much sacrifice is being made on the front lines in our hospitals and our nursing homes and out of respect for them, you know, get your shots. be responsible. i mean, these people are literally working day and night and they're fried and because they care about other people and it's time for the people in the country to care about them and be responsible for each other and care about each other because they're making huge sacrifices, the doctors and nurses and nursing homes, as i said. it's just amazing. i'm worried about them and i think we all should be. i heard the word freedom thrown around a lot, but with freedom comes responsibility and we have to be responsible citizens here.

and that's where my concerns r i will get better and i will be fine, but i'm worried about the health care system. now we're rationing care. >> it's a dangerous place we are in. >> yeah. yeah. so people who are sick, have a stroke, have a heart attack, get in a car accident, the wait in the local youngstown hospital, fredricka, is 15 to 20 hours to get into the emergency room. >> right. horrible. >> 15 to 20 hours. >> it's horrible and a lot of that could be cut back if only more people would get vaccinated. that's what we're hearing from our scientists and medical community. >> they are saying 80% to 90% of the people in those hospitals are unvaccinated clogging up the system, worsening the rationing of care. >> congressman tim rooun we are glad you could be with us and glad you are on the mend. all the best to you. we will be right back. that's how we've become the leader in 5g. #1 in customer satisfaction. and a partner who includes 5g in every plan, so you get it all.

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saying that they picked up brian laundrie hitchhiking gives a second person to that same story. we heard someone else talking about picking up brian laundrie around that same area they found the body of gabby petito. you have two people putting him where her body was found. that's important as we try to piece together a timeline. that's happening out in wyoming. here in florida we're outside of a nature preserve where brian laundrie's family says he was supposed to come here last week on tuesday and they haven't seen or heard from him since. that's what his parents tell us. we are going to take this shot overhead look of the search efforts happening today and throughout this weekend. police say that they are going to be out looking for brian over this 25,000 acres that makes up this preserve and take to listen to what one commander from the north port police department said about those search efforts. >> there are many, many more resources we're deploying in here other than the search efforts that we're seeing here

today. we have investigative means, we have other technology, agencies that are issuing search warrants for data. we ever' not wasting our time out here, we are doing our due diligence to find brian in an area that intelligence had led us that he could possibly be in. >> reporter: and so you heard the commander there saying we are not wasting our time here. there's been chatter especially on social media for people who believe that brian laundrie's family may be steering investigators in the wrong direction, but they are going to exhaust all of these different resources and options until they're able to track down exactly where he is. now, tomorrow in long island there will be a service for gabby petito, that's where her family lives, and people will gather there to remember and celebrate her life, but there are still so many unanswered questions. fred? >> indeed. nadia roromero.

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2021 is on pace to be the worst year for gun violence in decades. it is up almost 10% over last year which already had very high levels. the city of poverty land, oregon, has seen more than double the number of shooting incidents this year than last year. cnn's ryan young has more. >> we're entering the hottest area for shootings. everybody knows there's an uptick so now everybody has their head on a swivel. i deal with people who were athletes last year but this year they're shooters. >> reporter: roy moore and his community outreach team are on call 24/7 prying to prevent portland's next shooting. >> we're affected by the pandemic and our communities are hurting. our dice are dying, our men are dying. >> reporter: a 41-year-old former gang member says he was shot in the leg during a drive-by shooting in 2005. many members of the outreach team with portland opportunities industrialization center know gang violence firsthand, they

lived it and now they are trying their best to prevent teenagers from falling into the same trap. >> anthony lost his life out here. >> reporter: like rosa lee anderson convicted of felony drug trafficking for heroin but since her release has worked to give others the support she says she just didn't have. >> how do you reach out and try to get them to hear what you nice are talking about? >> tell them my story. i tell them what i've been through so they understand i've already done that, been there and the reason i'm trying to help them. >> i shot and killed somebody, you know, one of my poorest choices. >> reporter: and lionel irving who identifies as a gang veteran and served years in federal prison for man slauter. >> what's making you so mad about what you're seeing take place in the city right now? >> we know how to stop it in the front because we know in the third grade which way a kid is going to go but we're not attacking third graders having problems and traumas who wait until they get 16. >> this year the city is on pace

to shatter the number of homicides they have had in a single year. there have been over 750 shootings so far injuring over 250 people, more than double the number of shooting incidents they had at the same time last year. >> what do you think is behind the gun violence that we're seeing? >> i think gangs do play a part in it. we see a bunch of social media type beefs that kind of erupt in shootings. i don't know if i could pinpoint it to one thing. some people say it's the pandemic. >> reporter: lavelle says he's had more than 100 officers retire or quit in the last year on a force of just over 800 now that amount of turnover a hard. >> we have a very small amount of officers for the population. >> reporter: during most nights he says he has fewer than 40 officers patrolling the streets which he says is not enough resources. during one recent weekend he says his department had over 1,200 calls for help. >> can you change it if you are at the shortage that you're sort of stuck in right now?

>> it makes it difficult to investigate crimes that we want to investigate. we had a full-time traffic unit, we had a full-time narcotics unit, we had a full-time k-9 unit, all three of those were folded back into patrol. >> reporter: city leaders are betting that pumping money into community-based groups like the pioc part of the office of violence prevention will take some of the burden off the police force. >> we have clearly a gun violence problem in our community, we have a homicide problem in our community and the community should expect that we will have adequate resources, that's the tools, the training and the personnel. >> reporter: back on the street the outreach team meets up with a community member they are hoping to help with their services. >> have you experienced any gun violence? >> i just got shot in my hand, right there, actually. >> when police officers talk to you do they even come to you with that openness that he came to you with? >> they try to tell you what you need to do and this and that and

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hello again. thank you for joining me, i'm fredricka whitfield. we begin this hour with a major divide among democrats on capitol hill and a stalemate that's threatening to derail

president biden's domestic agenda. cnn has just learned from sources that the house democratic conference will hold a critical caucus meeting on monday and this comes as speaker nancy pelosi weighs options on a path forward on biden's massive spending legislation and the bipartisan infrastructure bill. pelosi has promised a vote on the infrastructure deal on monday, but progressives are threatening to vote no on that bill if a big budget package is not also presented. the president admits things are going well. >> now we're at this stalemate at the moment and we're not going to have to get these two pieces of legislation passed, both need to be passed, and they will have a profound impact. according to not just -- not joe biden, but according to wall street, according to the imf, according to international organizations. >> cnn's sunlen serfaty joining us now on capitol hill where democrats are meeting right now. sunlen, what more do